I’ve spent a life in parables,
disguising my ideas
in costumes and strange metaphors
deliberately unclear
and so perhaps convinced the world
that I’m a harmless quack,
imagining just chimeras
with no spine in their backs.
But recently, while looking through
and sorting sundry stuff,
I’ve started thinking parables
are just not clear enough.
So I’ve decided to speak plainly,
well, at least plain as I can,
and for a while, pretend that I’m
a new idea man.
Besides, it seems at present
the world needs of bit of this;
so I beg your indulgence,
and hope you won’t find amiss
the fact that I’ll be writing things
to stretch your world, and mine —
and perhaps we together
can build a new paradigm.
24 JAN 2005
